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1. The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
   - transportation, transport
    
2. Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
   - cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels, merchant navy [Brit]

1. Move goods commercially
   - transport, send
    
2. Hire for work on a ship
    
3. Go on board
   - embark
    
4. Travel by ship
    
5. Place on board a ship
   "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"
    
6. Take in water over the sides of a boat

Derived forms: shippings

Type of: board, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, conveyance, displace, employ, engage, get on, hire, journey, lay, move, place, pose, position, put, set, transport, travel

Antonym: debark

Part of: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism

Encyclopedia: Shipping